[Leica] OT: Web site host

[Steve Barbour]

good advice.

> On Oct 3, 2016, at 12:47 PM, Jeff Moore <jbmmllug at jbm.org> wrote:
> 
> As far as email - I think the single most important piece of advice I can
> give (I give it over and over, solicited or unsolicited, and of course it's
> roundly ignored) is: *never ever ever use an email address provided by your
> internet service provider as your primary email address to give out to
> people* and hope to use consistently for years.  All that does is lock you
> into continuing to use that ISP because of what a hassle is is to try to
> tell everybody a new address to use.
> 
> An ISP should be purely a utility, a pipe, a source of bandwidth you can
> switch whenever another carrier can give you better service or a better
> financial deal.  Don't let yourself get locked in by falling for that free
> email address they'll offer you.
> 
> So... a gmail address remains a fine choice (they do good spam detection,
> and have really useful message archiving and search features).
> 
> Gmail isn't free - you pay for it by letting then advertise to you.  But I
> still trust Google, because they have a good history of being transparent
> about how they'll use any information they glean about you (and I've seen
> them go well out of their way to make sure I saw and read any updates to
> those terms and conditions before they went into effect - this by dramatic
> contrast with Facebook, which routinely slips changes in under the radar).
> 
> You can use a regular @gmail.com address, or you can have Google handle
> email for your personal domain.
> 
> You can also opt to buy the Gmail and Google Apps / Drive service by paying
> $5/month per user in lieu of being advertised to.
> 
> As far as a website... the number of options is insane.  Note that if you
> have a purely static, read-only-for-viewers, no backend functionality at
> all website...  a pretty straightforward way to put up a static site which
> is really robust under load is to serve it from an Amazon S3 bucket.  You
> can look it up if you're interested and don't know what that means;  the
> approach may or not appeal to you.
> 
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